Tucker Carlson Hints at Baseless, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory of Jews Killing Charlie Kirk at Funeral Service

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who has platformed Holocaust deniers and open antisemites, used his eulogy for Charlie Kirk on Sunday to draw a comparison between the slain activist’s death and the killing of the Christian deity, which has been used as a pretext for killing Jews for millenia.

Speaking before a crowd of more than 70,000 mourners at State Farm Stadium, Carlson said Kirk’s assassination “actually reminds me of my favorite story ever,” launching into an account of the founder of Christianity’s supposed death in Jerusalem, which Christians say was carried out by Romans after Jews turned him in.

Online antisemites including Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens have, without evidence, accused Jews and Israel of killing Charlie Kirk, even though the shooter was not Jewish or connected to anyone in the Jewish community, while Kirk maintained an extremely friendly relationship with Jews, frequently invoking the consequences Hashem promised to mete out on those who either bless or curse Jews.

“It’s about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem and…. shows up, and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do: just telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop. ‘This guy’s got to stop talking. We’ve got to shut this guy up,’” Carlson said.

Without naming Jews directly, the narrative, which has no historical basis outside of the Christian Bible, depicts Jewish leadership as corrupt, in an attempt to discredit Chazal and the transmission of the Torah sheba’al peh.

Hundreds of pogroms have used the charge of deicide as justification for killing Jews, and it fueled the Holocaust as well.

“I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, ‘What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us? We must make him stop talking.’ There’s always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, ‘I’ve got an idea. Let me just kill him. That’ll shut him up, that’ll fix the problem.’ It doesn’t work that way,” he said.

Carlson, who has faced criticism for hosting Holocaust deniers and antisemitic influencers on his podcast, spoke for just under six minutes.

“How is Charlie’s message different? Charlie was a political person who was deeply interested in coalition building and getting the right people in office, because he knew that vast improvements are possible politically, but he also knew that politics is not the final answer.”

Carlson’s comments came during a memorial that also drew President Donald Trump and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who were seen shaking hands in their first public encounter since a recent feud.

Belaaz reached out to two influential Jewish leaders with personal ties to President Trump, and both declined to comment.